Man who established ‘payment system’ for daughter’s sex acts pleads guilty

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A Winnipeg man is facing a “significant” penitentiary sentence after admitting to paying his daughter for sex and threatening to turn his attention to her younger sister if she didn’t comply.

The 44-year-old man pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to one count each of sexual assault and sexual interference for repeated offences against the victims over the span of nearly a decade, ending in 2023. He cannot be named in order to protect the identities of his victims.

Crown attorney Catherine Bator read out an agreed statement of facts for the court, after which the man entered his guilty pleas and acknowledged they were voluntary. The man will be sentenced at a later date following the completion of a court-ordered pre-sentence report.

“He’s aware it’s going to be a significant penitentiary sentence, correct?” asked provincial court Judge Kusham Sharma, to which the man replied yes.

Court heard the man turned himself in to police in December 2023 after his young stepdaughter disclosed the abuse to her mother and she kicked him out of their house.

In a statement to police, the man said he had been sexually abusing his older biological daughter for about five years, starting with fondling and escalating to masturbation and other sex acts short of intercourse two to three times a week before the abuse ended in 2019.

The man claimed the girl asked him for money and he “suggested there were things she could do for money and… came to an agreement,” Bator said, reading from the agreed statement of facts. The man said the sex acts ceased when the girl turned 16 and found a job.

The man “says he is guilty and should be punished, that he was not looking for favour by coming in and confessing and that he wouldn’t challenge any incidents that might be disclosed in a statement by (the victim),” Bator said.

The now adult victim provided her own statement to police two weeks later, telling investigators the man established a “payment system” for various sex acts.

When the girl pushed back against his sex demands, “he made a comment that if she continued to cooperate with him, he wouldn’t have to touch her sister,” Bator said.

“(She) said she went along with the years of abuse because she was trying to keep (him) from focusing his sexual desires on her younger sister.”

Last March, the man’s stepdaughter provided a police statement alleging he would regularly grope her, press himself on her and mouth sexual comments to her when her mother wasn’t looking.

dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca